Kellyanne Conway (Image: Getty)
After President Donald Trump repeatedly uses the term “kung-flu” to describe COVID-19 in past few days, public backlash has grown over the use of racist language. The White House, meanwhile, is defending Trump’s language.
After Trump twice called coronavirus “kung-flu” while speaking at his Tulsa rally and during his speech in Arizona, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway proceeded to defend Trump’s words, when reporters pressed on her for a comment. Conway said it was Trump’s way to describe the origin of the virus.
“My reaction is that the president has made very clear that he wants everybody to understand, and I think many Americans do understand, that the virus originated in China,” Conway said Wednesday.
In March, Conway said that the term was “highly offensive” when an Asian-American CBS reporter Weijia Jiang tweeted that “a White House official referred to coronavirus as the ‘kung flu’ to my face.”
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